El Paso Zoo
- Minimum Qualifications
- Education and Experience: High School Diploma or GED, and one (1) year of confined animal care and handling experience, excluding personal pets.
Licenses and Certificates: Valid Texas Class “C”Driver’s License or equivalent from another state by the date of appointment.
- General Purpose
- Under immediate supervision, provide proficient care for the zoo’s animals in accordance with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ (AZA) animal health, welfare, and conservation principles, standards, and practices.
Typical Duties
- Feed, water, and care for exotic zoo animals and clean and maintain animal enclosures. Involves: Preparing regular and special diets to feed animals. Clean, disinfect, and maintain holding areas, enclosures, and exhibit areas. Maintain the safety of animals, self, coworkers, and the public. Monitor animal health and well-being. Report animal illness or injury to the appropriate staff. Assist veterinary staff with administering medications, providing treatment, and restraining for medical procedures and/or exams.
Assist with behavioral conditioning and enrichment programs for animals. Involves: Utilize a system of positive reinforcement techniques to achieve desired behaviors to meet health and/or husbandry needs. Provide animals with interactive items and activities to relieve stress and encourage natural behaviors.
Assist other zoo staff and the public. Involves: Identifying maintenance problems and resolving or reporting as necessary. Assist with grounds and landscaping maintenance and construction. Test water quality in aquatic exhibits. Answer questions from other staff and the public regarding zoo animals, exhibits, and related. Interact with the public in keeper chats/encounters, behind-the-scenes tours, media interviews, or other public educational presentations and event interactions.
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
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- Application of good knowledge of the care and feeding of zoo animals.
- Application of good knowledge of sanitation and disinfection processes.
- Application of some knowledge of AZA principles and practices.
- Ability to prepare and feed animals regular and special diet foods.
- Ability to support husbandry in any taxa, which can include birds, carnivores, primates, reptiles, insects, other small/large mammals, fish, marine mammals, etc.
- Ability to clearly and concisely communicate general reference information in assigned specialty areas.
- Ability to maintain accurate and thorough daily logs and records of animal care and observation.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, coworkers, and the general public.
- Ability to work alone or in a team environment.
- Ability to understand and follow oral instructions, City and Departmental policies and procedures.
- Other Job Characteristics
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- Subject to working extended hours, including weekends, holidays, and rotating shifts (days, evenings, and graveyards).
- Subject to mandatory recall and overtime.
- Perform physical work on a daily basis, including lifting/carrying up to 50 lbs.
- Requires mobility within a zoo environment and in all weather conditions.
- Work around a variety of animal species with potential for physical harm from bites, kicks, lifting, and restraining animals.
- Exposure to zoonotic infectious diseases from daily contact with exotic and domestic animals, including bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral pathogens.
- Exposure to power tools and machinery.
- Driving through zoo grounds and occasionally in city traffic.
- Immunizations and PPD (TB) skin test are required as a condition of employment unless waived for religious or medical reasons.
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